Insurance Coverage & Costs

HSC analyses focus on private and public insurance coverage, the uninsured and the cost of health care. HSC research provides insight into a range of topics, including how health care costs are changing, why the nation's number of uninsured continues to rise and how employer-sponsored coverage is changing.

Title	Date	Document Info
Trends In Out-Of-Pocket Spending By Insured American Workers, 1990-1997Jon R. Gabel, Paul B. Ginsburg, Jeremy D. Pickreign, James D. Reschovsky	March/April 2001	Health Affairs
Trends in the Cost of Employer-Sponsored CoverageM. Susan Marquis, Stephen H. Long	Fall 1998	Data Bulletin No. 14
Trends in U.S. Health Insurance Coverage, 2001-2003Bradley C. Strunk, James D. Reschovsky	August 2004	Tracking Report No. 9
Triple Jeopardy: Low Income, Chronically Ill and Uninsured in AmericaMarie C. Reed, Ha T. Tu	February 2002	Issue Brief No. 49
Understanding Differences Between High- and Low-Price Hospitals: Implications for Efforts to Rein In CostsChapin White, James D. Reschovsky, Amelia M. Bond	Jan. 29, 2014	Journal Article Health Affairs
Uninsurance Rates Vary Widely Across Communities and RegionsPeter J. Cunningham, Jeremy D. Pickreign	Fall 1997	Data Bulletin No. 05
Update on the Nation's Health Care System:	November 16, 1999	Conference Transcript
Update on the Nation’s Health Care System:Cara S. Lesser, Paul B. Ginsburg	November/December 2000	Health Affairs
Using Science to Shape Medicare Physician PaymentPaul B. Ginsburg	Aug. 12, 2013	Journal Article JAMA Internal Medicine
Wall Street Analysts Bullish on Managed Care, Bearish on Revolution Health Care Information Technology	June 22, 2000	Conference Executive Summary
Wall Street Analysts Predict Several Years of Higher Health Plan Premiums	June 10, 1999	Conference Executive Summary
Wall Street Comes to Washington:	December 1998	Issue Brief No. 17
Wall Street Comes to Washington:	September 1999	Issue Brief No. 21
Wall Street Comes to Washington:	September 2000	Issue Brief No. 31
What Accounts for Differences in Uninsurance Rates Across Communities?Peter J. Cunningham, Paul B. Ginsburg	Spring 2001	Inquiry
What High-Deductible Plans Look Like: Findings from a National Survey of Employers, 2005Gary Claxton, Jon R. Gabel, Isadora Gil, Jeremy D. Pickreign, Heidi H. Whitmore, Benjamin Finder, Shada Rouhani, Samantha Hawkins, Diane Rowland	Sept. 14, 2005	Journal Article Health Affairs
When Medicare Cuts Hospital Prices, Seniors Use Less Inpatient CareChapin White, Tracy Yee	October 2013	Journal Article Health Affairs
Who Declines Employer-Sponsored Health Insurance and Is Uninsured?Peter J. Cunningham, Elizabeth Schaefer, Christopher Hogan	October 1999	Issue Brief No. 22
Who Has a Choice of Health Plans?Sally Trude	February 2000	Issue Brief No. 27
Why Do Hispanics Have So Little Employer-Sponsored Health Insurance?James D. Reschovsky, Jack Hadley, Len M. Nichols	Fall 2007	Journal Article Inquiry